Artificial vs Natural Intelligence
Over this 7-part series, we’ve explored how natural systems — ants, bees, birds, and brains — solve problems through emergence, not instruction.
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Website, Rewilded
New website is live! In August 2024 the former adappt.io was renamed to adaptive-emergent.com to narrow the scope from web3 distributed networks to biomimetic ones (read the three part series on this starting here). Along with the name change was a new website, written with Claude AI as it was at the time.
26-Oct-2025
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History of A-E
adappt’s heritage is in its name. Read all parts to this series: In part one, we reviewed what was adappt.io, from 2015 to 2024.
View seriesFungi Entangled Futures podcast
18-Sep-2025
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Perch helps identify bird species
Google DeepMind’s Perch model helps conservationists analyze audio faster to protect endangered species, from Hawaiian honeycreepers to coral reefs.
07-Aug-2025
Read morePart 1: What Do We Mean By 'Agent'?
In 2025 the term “agent” has been dusted off and it is seeing another time in the sun.
09-Jul-2025
Read moreNature and Cybersecurity
This is part 3 of the Tide Foundation’s five part series on their distributed approach to securing computers.
22-Jan-2025
Read moreAnts best humans at collective intelligence
https://www.science.org/content/article/ants-best-humans-test-collective-intelligence
30-Dec-2024
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Part 4: Purpose vs Emergence
In previous articles we defined terms like agent and swarms, and looked at a major difference between natural and artificial adaptation, time.
20-Jul-2025
Read morePart 5: Collective Memory
This is the fifth of seven articles in the series comparing Nature with AI and how they approach agents.
17-Aug-2025
Read morePart 6: Words Matter, Swarms Revisited
In particular areas of human endeavour, precision in language matters, such as contract law.
30-Aug-2025
Read morePart 7: Wrap Up and What's Next
Over this 7-part series, we’ve explored how natural systems — ants, bees, birds, and brains — solve problems through emergence, not instruction.
30-Aug-2025
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